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Little pink fan orchid

Caladenia nana

Little pink fan orchid
Photo: Stephen Carnaby, CC BY 3.0 au

Caladenia nana is a small, deciduous, tuberous ground orchid from south-west Western Australia, with a single leaf and up to six pale to rose pink flowers. It grows wild in winter-wet flats and swamps, so it needs moist soil in winter and a dry rest in summer.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep moist during the winter growing season, then let the soil dry out while the plant is dormant in summer.
Soil
Free-draining, moisture-retentive mix such as sandy loam with added organic matter.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Caladenia nana, commonly known as pink fan orchid, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a clump-forming ground orchid with a single linear leaf and up to 6 pale pink to rose pink flowers.

Where it grows

Caladenia nana grows in winter-wet flats and swamps in jarrah forest in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Caladenia plants

Coastal spider orchid · Canberra spider orchid · Caladenia ×aestantha · Summer spider orchid · Fairy orchid · Stegostyla Alpina · Boranup spider orchid · Bundarra spider orchid · Charming spider orchid · Dainty spider orchid · Dainty blue china orchid · Genoa spider orchid

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Caladenia nana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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